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John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Baron

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Henry Adams

Mortimer Jerome Adler

MDCarchives
Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Steve Allen

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1987
anonymous

Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Arrian

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo

A. J. Ayer

Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
David W. Baker

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
E. Digby Baltzell

William Barclay

courtesy of the William Barclay Lectureship Trust
Frederic Bastiat

Claude Frédéric Bastiat. Wikimedia Commons.
Ezra Taft Benson

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Edward De Bono

Max Boot

Robert H. Bork

Wikipedia (U.S. Dept. of Justice Photo)
James Henry Breasted

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Bright

John Bright (1811-1889), British politician
Source: "Great Britain and the American Civil War,"
by Ephraim Douglass Adams
(Project Gutenberg)
Jill Briscoe

Britannica Editors

Ad for Encyclopædia Britannica published May 1913 in National Geographic.
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Patrick J. Buchanan

Kyle Cassidy, Oct 2004 (Wikimedia Commons)
WM.F.buckley Jr. And L. Brent Bozell

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
John Bunyan

Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Edmund Burke

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
James Burke

James Burnham

Marxists.org
Nathaniel Burt

Barbara Bush

from Wikipedia
Julius Caesar

public domain
Jean Calvin

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-72002)
Bruce Catton

Oswald Chambers

Whittaker Chambers

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-114739)
Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
David Christie-Murray

David Christie Murray. Photo by Thomas Fatt. Frontispiece to The making of a novelist, an experiment in autobiography (1894).
Winston Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Champ Clark

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-27529)
David K. Clark

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Charles Carleton Coffin

Charles Carleton Coffin, Boston Journal Army Correspondent, Historian, and Author
Roy M. Cohn

World Telegram & Sun photo by Herman Hiller, 1964 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117816)
Charles W. Colson

Dan Davis Photography
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Ann Coulter

Davy Crockett

Public domain (University of Texas at Austin)
Loren Cunningham

Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
L. Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
William A. Dembski

Photo by Wesley R. Elsberry.
Jeremiah A. Denton

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Michael Denton

René Descartes

from Wikipedia
Ed Dobson

Brian Kelly Photography
James C. Dobson

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Allen Drury

Portrait of Allen Drury ~ U.S. Senate Art & History
WILL DURANT

Elbert Hubbard

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
George Eliot

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
T. S. Eliot

Elisabeth Elliot

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Walter A. Elwell

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William Feller

John Foxe

Line engraving first published in the 1641 edition of Actes and Monmuents (Foxe's Book of Martyrs). By George Glover (fl. 1625-1650)
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Kenneth O. Gangel

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Norman L. Geisler

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Gene A. Getz

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
Langdon Gilkey

Newt Gingrich

Thomas V. Nash
Bernard Goldberg

Barry M. Goldwater

Congressional Portrait
Albert Gore

Wikipedia
Ruth Bell Graham

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Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
John Gray

Douglas R. Groothuis

Os Guinness

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Edward Everett Hale

1905 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-99518)
Alexander Hamilton

Edith Hamilton

Sean Hannity

Paul Harvey

President George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to legendary radio personality Paul Harvey, awarded Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005 in the East Room of the White House. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
(whitehouse.gov)
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
S. I. Hayakawa

Wikipedia Commons (U.S. Congressional Photo)

F. A. Hayek

Jack W. Hayford

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Henry Hazlitt

Wikipedia
Friedrich Heer

William Hendriksen

Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Hugh Hewitt

lukeford.net
Napoleon Hill

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-136396)
E. D. Hirsch

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Herbert Hoover

from Wikipedia
J. Edgar Hoover

fbi.gov
Michael Scott Horton

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Francis Clark Howell

Courtesy of the Howell Family
Hubert H Humphrey

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Pierre J. Huss

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Julian Huxley

Thomas Henry and Julian Huxley in 1895. From
WikipediaDavid Jacobs

Jane Jacobs

Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan (left), National Humanities Award Ceremony 2003. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
Walter C. Kaiser

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Michael G. Kammen

Stanley. Karnow

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
Jan Karon

Jack Kemp

The White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance
George F. Kennan

Photo credit: Princeton University Archives, circa 1961-1963 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev

Russell Kirk

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Tim La Haye

Rose Wilder Lane

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RoseWilderLane01.jpg
Lewis H. Lapham


C. S. Lewis

Rush H. Limbaugh

Walter Lippmann

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-21696)
(cropped)
Titus Livius Livy

from Wikipedia
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Martin Luther

Douglas MacArthur

Department of Defense
John MacArthur

Matt Floreen
James Madison

Thomas Mann

Catherine Marshall

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Walter Ralston Martin

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Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Dennis McCallum

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Eugene J. McCarthy

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Robert McCrum

John McManners

Hugh McManners
Eugene H. Merrill

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Calvin Miller

Keith Miller

photo by Dina Salah
John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
József Mindszenty

Ludwig Von Mises

Alan Moorehead

From the papers of Tom Pocock, 1987–1990
By permission of the National Library of Australia
James Porter Moreland

Edmund Sears Morgan

Columbia University
Lewis Henry Morgan

Samuel Eliot Morison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
Leon Morris

Ridley College Library, Australia
Andrew Murray

John Henry Newman

"His Eminence Cardinal Newman"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Mark A. Noll

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Gary North

LewRockwell.com
Thomas C. Oden

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Oliver O'Donovan

Douglas Knight March 2008
P. J. O®Rourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Nicholas Ostler

Elaine Pagels

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
R. R. Palmer

Credit: Emily S. Palmer
C. Northcote Parkinson

William Barclay Parsons

1904 photograph, Pach Brothers (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128453)
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Alan. Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Norman Vincent Peale

Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Drew Pearson

Henry Petroski

Richard Pipes

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 20, 2004
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Plutarch

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Marco Polo

Richard Pombo

U.S. House of Representatives Historical Office
Thomas S. Power

United States Air Force photo
(af.mil)
Jack N. Rakove

Columbia University
Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Ronald Reagan

DoD photo, April 8, 1983 (DA-SC-90-03096)
William H. Rehnquist

Official portrait of Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist
Jean Francois Revel

Jean Francois Revel polaroid portriat 1999 taken by Elsa Dorfman
James Roosevelt

Photo from official Marine Corps biography (Wikipedia)
Bertrand Russell

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Charles M. Russell

William Safire

Credit: White House photo by Shealah Craighead, Dec. 15, 2006, receiving the 2006 President Medal of Freedom
Mari Sandoz

Antonin Scalia

Wikimedia Commons (Official U.S. Supreme Court Portait)
Francis A. Schaeffer

© 2007 by Steve Mitchell
Phyllis Schlafly

Herbert Schlossberg

Photo courtesy of Herbert Schlossberg
H. Norman Schwarzkopf

U.S. Army photograph (1988) by Russell Roederer.
Robert J. Serling

Robert J. Serling
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Fulton J Sheen

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1952 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-123461)
William E. Simon

Painting by Everett Raymond Kinstler
George Gaylord Simpson

Adam Smith

Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Howard A. Snyder

WATCHTOWER

Picture taken in Brooklyn, NY in 1985
Oswald Spengler


R. C. Sproul

James Thompson (2006 Together for the Gospel conference)
Charles H. Spurgeon

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Charles F. Stanley

Vincent Starrett

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Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen (1879-1973) Photographed by F. Holland Day, 1901 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-52912)
Peter Steinfels

Photograph by Haig Manoogian
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Geoffrey R. Stone

Photo by Lilithcat
I. F. Stone

Kzitelman
Joseph Story

Photo by Matthew M. Brady (Library of Congress #USZ62-1101960
John Stossel

John R. W. Stott

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Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Steven D. Symms

Wikipedia (U.S. Congressional Photo)
Cornelius Tacitus

Alan Taylor

© Dan Vaillancourt
W. Ian Thomas

Photo courtesy of
Torchbearers International.
Major W. Ian Thomas - Founder of the Capernwray Missionary Fellowship of Torchbearers
Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Alexis De Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
John G. Tower

DoD photo by PH1 Harold Gerwien, Oct. 27, 1987 (DN-ST-88-05791)
Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Laurence H. Tribe

Photo by Lilithcat
Ralph Waldo Trine

Jerome Tuccille

Gordon Tullock

Photo by Joshua Paquin / Flickr.
Various

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Malcolm Wallop

Wikipedia (U.S. Congressional Photo)
John F. Walvoord

George Washington

James G. Watt

U.S. Dept of the Interior
James H. Webb

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Max Weber

Julius Wellhausen

Julius Wellhausen
H. G Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienTerry Whalin

A. D. White

Ellen G White

John W Whitehead

Mel White

Rev. Mel White ~ Photo by Alan Light, Flickr (Cropped)
Warren W. Wiersbe

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David R. Wilkerson

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Major General Charles A. Willoughby

Owen Wister

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-06086)
Bob Woodward

N. T. Wright

Used by permission of
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Xenophon

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
K. P. Yohannan

GFA Photo used by permission
Carl Zimmer

Ben Stechshulte
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